Clover's First Christmas

Walking, Talking, and Stair Climbing

Little Miss Giggles

Clover's first steps!

10 months and 1 week old.

Clover's 10 month update.

I can't believe how fast the time goes by. I feel like I'm always saying this now, but it's true! Only two more months and Clover will be One! I realized the other day that I need to actually start thinking about her party because it will be here before we know it. Clover is very close to walking and loves pushing her wagon around the house and the neighborhood. She can push it all the way around the block! She babbles constantly now, experimenting with new sounds everyday. Her favorite word is "Dada" and she cheers this while jumping up and down and flapping her arms or clapping whenever "Dada" enters the room. It must be nice to have a fan club. She can say "Mama", but doesn't very often. When I try to get her to say it she responds with "Dada"! HA, what are ya do? Clover loves to wave to everyone and everything and say "hi" or "bub, bye". Her newest trick is clapping and she'll do this in celebration of just about anything you can think of. This morning she watched me open the refrigerator door and promptly started bouncing on her knees and clapping before crawling over to look inside......the refrigerator and the dishwasher a both a big hit in this house! Clover is a great little sleeper (knock on wood)! She sleeps 11 hours stretches now and even goes back to sleep for another hour in the morning after I feed her. She also happily takes two 2 - 2 1/2 hour naps during the day. This is great news for Mommy, because anyone who knows me well, knows that I LOVE sleep and can't get enough of it. I'm thankful she inherited this hobby of mine :) Oh, and I almost forgot....Clover finally got her first tooth!! It's her bottom right one. I expect to see more soon, but you never know....it took nearly 10 months grow his one.


Happily enjoying the Cheerios that Great Grandma and Gran'dad sent in her Halloween card!

Bundled up and pushing her wagon around the block on a cold November day.

Helping Mommy unload the dishwasher.

Chowin' down on some bread at the Olive Garden for Daddy's Birthday!

Practicing her stair climbing. She likes to go up and down the first 2 stairs, but doesn't really seem interested in going any further.....what a cautious little girl!

Walking practice with Grandpa

Happy Halloween!

Clover's first Halloween was so much fun! She was very cooperative with the ladybug costume, in fact she spent quite a bit of time playing in it during the days leading up to Halloween and loved seeing herself in the mirror all dressed up. We took Clover to two of the neighbors houses to show off her costume and collect some candy for Mommy and Daddy to enjoy :)

Clover proudly models her Ladybug costume in the mirror.

Trick or Treating at Sydney's house, but she was taking a late nap. Clover picked out a Butterfinger and enjoyed chewing on the outside while Mommy and joyed eating the inside :)

A Ladybug and a Bumble Bee! Sydney came by after her nap for a visit.

Ready for her next house with Daddy!

On the front porch of our neighbor's Curtis and Brynja. They had a special goody bag for Clover and she was ready to dive in!

This was the day before Halloween at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Clover is playing with my old Fisher Price wind-up record player.

Mommy and Daddy dressed up too! We went to a Halloween party at our neighbors house and dressed up as Juno and Bleeker from the movie Juno. I wanted this to be our costumes last year when I was actually pregnant, but nobody had a party and I was too tired to go anywhere anyway.

For those of you who aren't familiar.....here are the characters from the movie.

The Pumpkin Patch!

Michael and I are very excited about Halloween this year because we haven't been to the Pumpkin Patch in years and now we have a good excuse! We went to one about 30 minutes from our house at Remlinger Farm's with our good friends (and neighbor's) who's baby, Sydney, is the same age as Clover. I don't know what was in the air that day, but both girls were less than amused. Sydney was tired....Clover was cranky.....we made the best of it and still managed to snap a few good pictures. Just to give you an idea though, at one point the girls had a cry off while we tried to get a picture of them in front of the corn maze. The adults enjoyed it and we even got a kick out of the whole crying fiasco as we caught it on video tape....I know, we're sick.

Happy girl at the beginning.

Trying to turn Sydney's frown upside down :)

Christy and Sydney...at least one of them was happy!

Success....we managed to snap a good family picture without the binky!

This is the cry off in full swing, haha.

She doesn't look amused

Trying for another family picture, but it wasn't working out.

Finally, one more good smile before we completely lost her and decided to head home.


Courtesy of Grandpa, here's a video of Clover and Sydney's visit to the the pumpkin patch.